April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, a time dedicated to child-abuse education, awareness and prevention activities.

The solution is getting to the root of the cause through education and changing behaviors and attitudes and loving and nurturing children. Stopping Violence before it starts helps create happy and healthy children.

TELL CITY – Special Olympics Indiana, Perry County and Saint Meinrad Archabbey’s Cooperative Action for Community Development Inc. will host the 46th annual track & field and bocce meet at 9 a.m. April 30 at Legion Field in Tell City.

“Everyone is welcome to attend this event,” said Vicky Lutgring, county coordinator for Special Olympics Indiana-Perry County. “I promise it will give you a better understanding of our Special Olympics athletes.”

PERRY COUNTY – Easter Sunrise Services will be held at Deer Creek Baptist Church this year. A celebration of the risen lord will begin Sunday morning at 6:30 a.m. Tell City First Baptist Church, Cannelton First Baptist Church and Deer Creek Baptist Church will join together as one congregation to celebrate Easter.

LEOPOLD – Perry Central Community School musicians earned gold ratings in an overall category and for sight reading at a concert-band competition April 8 at Castle High School.

“This was the fifth year in a row we’ve earned gold, but the first time we’ve done it in Group 3,” Director Rob Cason boasted. His students had previously competed in the less-difficult Group 4. He determines which group they’ll compete in based on his assessment of their skills, he explained.

TELL CITY – The Indiana Department of Transportation announced this week that Indiana 66 in Spencer County will close. The road has been closed in the past due to a landslide 7.4 miles east of U.S. 231.

Contractor’s crews will begin repairing the slide area Monday at approximately 7 a.m. The road will remain closed through June 24. The project completion date is weather, material and equipment dependent.

TELL CITY – County Auditor Connie Berger reminds taxpayers to file for property-tax deductions and exemptions. The one-time filing of deductions or exemptions is still in effect unless your status has changed. Any deductions filed by Dec. 31 will be applied to taxes payable in 2012. Following is an explanation of what may qualify taxpayers as having a change in status: